I recently participated in a couple of interviews. Here’s some info about both of them:

Community Signal podcast – I talked with Patrick O’Keefe about libraries and their communities, both online and offline versions. It was a fun talk! We covered a wide range of material, including digital branches and what online community professionals can learn from libraries. Check out the podcast (and the article) here.

McKee Library interview – I participated in an email interview with McKee Library, and they posted it this week. In the interview, they asked me 4 questions: What am I working now, How have libraries been part of my life, What is your favorite book and why, and my advice for today’s college students. Check out my answers here.

Interviews are always fun to do, and hopefully provide some good thoughts and discussion, too. Enjoy!

These are some notes I took on podcasting at last fall’s Podcamp Topeka. I “rediscovered” them, and decided they could be useful to some of you.

Rob Walch, who’s Vice President of Podcaster Relations for Wizzard Media/Libsyn and does the Today in iOS podcast, gave this presentation. Here are the notes – maybe more libraries need to start a podcast!

Some podcasting facts:

There are overÂ 1.8 million blogs, but only 200,000 podcasts

Podcasting is much easier to listen to now. You can still do it the old way – dump it to an iPod. But you can also use an app, download directly from iTunes to your iPod, or just listen on the web.

Podcasts have really loyal audiences – one podcast has listeners who are getting tattoos related to the podcast!

Audio is much more popular than video podcasts. Audio is much more portable.

iTunes and podcasting:

iTunes is really important to the success of a podcast

The podcast’s title is really important, especially in iTunes. Make sure to stuff keywords into the title, because that’s a primary keyword area for iTunes.

Artwork has to be great on iTunes. There are apparently two guys at Apple who pick featured podcasts for the podcast app, and they don’t pick bad artwork…

September 2012 podcasting stats from Libsyn (a major podcasting service):

It’s a good show! We talked about my new book, the Internet Librarian 2012 conference, stuff my library is doing, the Ebooks for Libraries website, and probably a whole bunch more stuff that I’m forgetting at the moment.